Thursday, November 24, 2011

Matching igneous plutons!!!?

these are the words:


A. Columnar Joints B. Laccolith C. Stock D. Batholith E. Dike F. Sill





and here are the descriptions to match them to:


1. tabuar bodies formed when magma intrudes layered rocks parallel to the layers (concordant)


2. form as igneous rocks cool and develop shrinkage fractures in pillar-like fashion


3. tabular discordant (cross-cutting) bodies produced by injection of magma into fractures


4. a large body of exposed intrusive igneous rock, less that 100 square km surface area


5. an extremely large body of exposed intrusive igneous rock, greater than 100 square km surface area


6. a usually horizontal, lens-shaped mass that arches upward (mushroom-shaped)|||Ignore that first answer. Let peeps who actually like this crap help you out. :-)





Sill


1. tabuar bodies formed when magma intrudes layered rocks parallel to the layers (concordant)











Columnar Joints


2. form as igneous rocks cool and develop shrinkage fractures in pillar-like fashion








Dyke


3. tabular discordant (cross-cutting) bodies produced by injection of magma into fractures








Stock


4. a large body of exposed intrusive igneous rock, less that 100 square km surface area








Batholith


5. an extremely large body of exposed intrusive igneous rock, greater than 100 square km surface area








Laccolith


6. a usually horizontal, lens-shaped mass that arches upward (mushroom-shaped)


|||This is a homework assignment that you should be doing yourself. It would take less time to research these terms in a basic igneous geology textbook than it took you to do all that typing.





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